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Greentech may not escsape the town hall screamers

What a befoon!Anti-government? I didn't see MSNBC on your resume. Hey....wait a minute...Chris Matthews? Is that you...you kidder you. Hey, great job on cloning yourself. Too bad they haven't worked out the whole personality missing thing yet.RE: Greentech may not escsape the town hall screamersAhh! People might want to see...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Minute Maid Park, Minute Maid, Astros, lunatic

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

EPIC iFAIL

EPIC iFAILhmmm 2.0iPhone software 2.0 can import all your contacts from your SIM card. JUST FYI.RE: EPIC iFAILWell since you have a T-Mobile phone and it also has a SIM card you can copy all your contacts to your SIM card and Then all you have to do is have...

Tags: Flash memory, OK IT, EPIC iFAIL, EPIC, Apple iPhone, lunatic, SIM card, reasonable people

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

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Paperless students? Never going to happen

Got an idea...If someone wants to do without paper, toilet-paper,a car/truck, air conditioning, and never passgas. Than more power to them, on the other handstop forcing these lunatic policies on employers,small business and the rest of society.In the meantime, people have to work, to earn moneyto eat and raise their...

Tags: Tablets, Microsoft Office, Notebooks, Taxes, Personal finance, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, tablet

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Celebrating 27 years of the Compact Disc: Does anyone really care?

Today is the 27th birthday of the Compact Disc, and I hate to say it, but I think this medium is getting a little old. Perhaps 27 years in CD time is actually like turning 87 in human time: it had a good go in the...

Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Disc, Orchestra, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Will EPA trump Congress on carbon? If so, watch the fur fly.

For the sake of balanced debatewould you quit the condescending use of the word 'deniers' as if anyone presenting a differing view on climate change is of the lunatic fringe. You only end up looking irrational yourself. Fulfill your responsibility as journalist and present some opposing views to AWG, whether...

Tags: U.S. Congress, AWG, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?

Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?Define "making money"If a unit in and of itself loses $1 billion a year, but another unit benefits by $$3 billion a year as a result of that unit's existence, do you close it? And how do you make such measures reliably?Example: Internet Explorer.If...

Tags: Workforce management, He/She/It, Microsoft Corp., layoff, future layoff

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Tumble Lunatic Set 5 1.0 (Mobile)

A set of 30 new Tumble levels from Lunatic Software.This set contains some very difficult, mind-bending levels. So it should take you many many hours to finish.

Tags: Hour, Mobile, Level, LunaticSoftware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Altec Lansing BackBeat 906

Photo gallery:Altec Lansing BackBeat 903Editors' note: The following review is for the Altec Lansing BackBeat 903. The BackBeat 903 and 906 headset models are identical. The products are differentiated by a Bluetooth 2.0 audio adapter that is included with the 906 model only. Bluetooth headphones can be a confusing product...

Tags: BackBeat 903, Altec Lansing, headset, headphone, Altec Lansing BackBeat, Bluetooth

Product reviews 2009-07-07

PirateBay's Sunde calls for fundamental changes to copyright

PirateBay's Sunde calls for fundamental changes to copyrightHe's rightAnd copyright law is in desperate need of fixing, but it won't happen until large numbers of people start caring about the issue. Maybe if laws are enforced and sites like Pirate Bay start disappearing, those unhappy about it will start...

Tags: Branding, pirate bay, Sunde call, Sunde, PirateBay, copyright law

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Prioritizing bugs to boost Linux adoption

Prioritizing bugs to boost Linux adoptionGood idea. One of my gripes has already been written aboutright here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=62587&messageID=1175162#7468564444263411314&authId=Z6HGiN/lieHAYr2cBP3nkh6ZvIQSz/q5p+rs/WKQqRniE3yqBqrAzZ3UEVN5DV2K- KcWindows applications under WINE......have to be well written apps, conforming to Microsoft's Windows API's. Any application that uses "tricks", or undocumented calls, will not work under WINE. I would not refer to...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Linux Apps, Linux-adoption, Linux, wine, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-04-18

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayerYou're missing the pointWe should not permit single point of failure networks to be built. Besides, there's over 80 million miles of fiber in the U.S. alone, and it simply is not possible to monitor all that cable, or...

Tags: Network technology, WikiAnswers, cable, prayer, Internet-infrastructure

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

Dr. Lunatic Supreme With Cheese 2.2 (Windows)

Over 1,200 levels packed to the brim with over 200 monsters, 20 special weapons, endless puzzles, and brains and candles you'll need to collect. In each level you'll have to fend off hordes of monsters while you collect the brains and candles. Includes a level editor and over 150 bonuses...

Tags: Brain, Monster, Hamumu Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-01

Microsoft/TomTom settle patent infringement case

Microsoft/TomTom settle patent infringement caseYeah, sure... they were the losers here? NoTomTom is forced to pay Microsoft for the 8 patents.Microsoft pays nothingTomTom will remove from its products the functionality related to two file management system patents (the ?FAT LFN patents?), which enables efficient naming, organizing, storing and accessing of...

Tags: TomTom, Microsoft Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

How to make freemium pay

How to make freemium payI don't like the sound of 'freemium'It is as free as crippleware and trialware was for the desktop apps.I hate them and and moving the same concept from the desktop to the web is no innovation to me.Freemium, or FreeLunch ?SaaS companies taking this approach...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Acrobat.com, Phil

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

The feds may green your next toaster or microwave

The feds may green your next toaster or microwaveA blender?Why do I need a more energy efficient blender?Seriously. I probably use my blender for 30 minutes a year. So, it makes no difference how much juice it takes to make juice.Why doesn't Conrgress just repeal the laws of entropyThat'll make...

Tags: blender, microwave

Discussion threads 2009-02-06

Tech layoff parade continues: TI cuts 12 percent of workforce

Tech layoff parade continues: TI cuts 12 percent of workforcethat's the price we pay for November 4th, 2008Now people are seeing the light with what the new Obama administration brought them: unemployment and ruin.You can't blame on anybody else now, it's liberals' fault since they control all the federal power.A...

Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Tech layoff, Texas Instruments Inc., layoff, workforce

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

Luddites, science and global warming

Luddites, science and global warmingRE: Luddites, science and global warmingI don't know why people get all in a fuss about this. They have to try it out first. Its an experiment people and if it works as they intend then we can go from there. If not then either nothing...

Tags: Luddites, global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-01-15

British police can now hack citizens' PCs

British police can now hack citizens' PCsDifferences...The only difference between Britain and the US... Britian is public with its plans and has government approval. The US has faced scrutiny of Congress but intelligence agencies pressed ahead anyway and already data mine all of your communications.Say hi to your Uncle...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Spyware, British Police, PC, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-01-04

End the open source obsession with Microsoft

End the open source obsession with MicrosoftM$ must GPL its codeand that will open communication with OSS.So Microsoft doesn't engage in this?[i]That scene did not happen. More likely some mid-level bureaucrat dealing with this particular show decided to show off his or her power.[/i]Most likely it did happen at the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source obsession, open source, Dana

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Why glossy screens don't work in notebooks

Why glossy screens don't work in notebooksNot the point Sparky.ntIn a VMYou can clearly see the OSX menubar in the screen shot.That being said, I'm liking my new MacBook Pro. It smokes compared to my old PowerBook.Looks like I've purchased my last Apple computer.If ALL Apple computers now come...

Tags: Notebooks, glossy screen, Apple Inc., notebook

Discussion threads 2008-10-21